Design My Place

Group 6

School: Pioneer Junior College

Members: Ho Cher Kee Andy, Mabel Sim Jia Hui, Ng Bao Kuang,

Ng Shao Hui, Ong Yee Seng

Proposal: Rediscover Living

Our project aims to reutilize Lorong Halus into an area of specialization on the R&D of environmental technologies, biotechnologies, and green technologies. More importantly, it allows these R&D efforts and their results to be tested in a living laboratory, if you will, comprised of real world conditions and real human testing courtesy of the community nearby that we are attracting as well.

Community-wise, the industrial estate was planned to embrace and allow the community to infiltrate and utilize. Various spaces like the Shelters and Community Centre are diffused throughout the entire industrial estate, avoiding loss of connectivity between the community and the “corporate”, and increasing opportunities for interaction which makes possible the below activities.

We envision an industrial estate where firms can easily conduct experiments on the forested environment of the entire estate. For e.g. a firm looking into using bioengineered plants to produce useful compounds on an appreciable scale can simply find a plot of forested land so abundant in the estate to do so. Additionally, it is also a place where firms can conduct real world testing of their products and ideas. For e.g. a firm with a new kind of plant-derived lighting means can set up this product in any of the shelters provided partly to allow curious hands to tinkle with the fruits of labor of the firms in the estate. Ultimately, whatever the case, the efforts of the firms and the a significant element of the main theme of the industrial estate are aimed at helping to create new technologies and new ideas to help better integrate our living environment into a more natural setting. In the local context, this would mean tropical rainforests.

This is because our current way of life would have to change, if we wish to stop the global negative trends that are getting worse by the day, such as climate change and excessive consumerism, which produces vast amounts of waste.